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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2881 of 3737 21 March 2013 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have to relocate far away from what was once your home, and so you try to distract yourself with a visit to a local thrift shop, hoping that there will be a few foreign language treasures in there, someplace.
BUT. Your little excursion is not so amusing anymore when you see a table of antique tools of various kinds. Normally, these are very interesting to look at, but THIS time . . . gggrrrrrrr! . . . someone has placed a note by one of them with the wrong German word for scissors. How, HOW could they! I needed to correct that label, but did not have a pen with me. But next time . . . I'm coming prepared, and it will be fixed. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2882 of 3737 21 March 2013 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
I'm pretty sure it is! I know I got it from my sister. - Kat 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bubblyworld Newbie South Africa http:/ Joined 4285 days ago 7 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Xhosa, French, Japanese | Message 2883 of 3737 23 March 2013 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
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When you tell your family that you don't really want to watch a movie with them because it's in English, and they find that kind of thing perfectly normal.
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5170 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2884 of 3737 23 March 2013 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
That happens to me, too! When I was listening to Pope Francis's first speech I was excited to have a chance to practice my Italian - and then the interpreter started speaking, so I could barely hear the original Italian! When you also experience the opposite of the problem mentioned above - you watch the news in Spanish and sometimes they don't dub the English speakers fast enough, so you hear the whole thing in English and don't get to practice your Spanish listening comprehension (for all of like 1 minute, until the reporters start speaking again, but it's still kind of annoying). When you watch Nicaraguan news so much that you go around with random sentences from commercials popping into your head - and sometimes out of your mouth. Some of your favorites are: "Price Club: el mejor club de compras - ¡ven a visitarnos ya!"; "No te equivoques, usa Valvoline"; "¡Basta con conexiones ilegales!"; and finally, "Cien por ciento noticias . . . con primicias a toda hora." Edited by Amerykanka on 23 March 2013 at 3:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2885 of 3737 23 March 2013 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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O melhor time do Brasil é o seu! :)
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 2886 of 3737 26 March 2013 at 6:50am | IP Logged | ||
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When I think that spending nearly all of my spare time last month learning Italian exclusively is a great idea. Edited by mick33 on 26 March 2013 at 7:20am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5185 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 2887 of 3737 02 April 2013 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have a dream that you want to learn Norwegian. This is the only part of the dream that you remember.
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| lewevanhoop Newbie United States Joined 5012 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Afrikaans, Modern Hebrew | Message 2888 of 3737 02 April 2013 at 4:46am | IP Logged | ||
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when you write a paper about the current sociological position of Afrikaans for your
English Comp 101 research paper. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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